Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 July 1895 — Page 2

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\W. S. MONTGOMERY, Editor and ^Publisher,

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Entered at Postottice us seeond-class matter.

THE names of a good many old soldiers are appearing as having received pensions by recent decisions. Out of 54 given in Tuesdays paper, 51 were under the liead of reissue and during this Cleveland administration that means a decrease.

Cleveland and his able lieutenant Hoke Smith, are cutting the old soldiers pensions in every possible way. What thej save off of him they give to their friends the New York and London boud.brokers.

lOalks Talk

More than forty years ago the present Christian church and court were built, In talking about this yesterday, J. Ward Walker id the proper County officials should not let the church get ahead of the County in the matter of a new court house. J. Ward is in favor of a new court house, as are all other progressi\e citizens.

If Marshal Scott would roust several of Greenfield's women of doubtful reputation as effectually as he did the two from Indianapolis, Greenfield morally speaking, would be a foettar town.

It is a foregone conclusion that ere many years Hancock county will be compelled to build a new court house. 1 his i« a fact evident to everyone who has business to transact at the present house. Hie present court house, as we have said before, is entirely too small and inconvenient lor the proper transaction of buFineas, and especially is this the case with our lawyers, who have a great deal of business there. To them it is sometimes a seemingly eudless task to find certain papers that they need, for they are as liable to have to go to the jail to find what they want as at the court house, for two or three rooms at that place are filled with records. Theu another fact to take into consideration is the proper pride in the capital of our county. There are very few counties of importance in the State that does not have a better and more modern court house than we have, and many of the counties are not in nearly as good condition financially as we are. This county is practically out of debt, the only outstanding debt being $7,500, which will be paid as soon as it becomes due, and cannot be paid before, so it would be an easy matter to build it now. The extra taxes that each tax-payer would have to pay would hardly be noticed. The county commissioners, the county officials, the lawyers, and in fact everyone wich whom we have talked on the subject, are heartily in favor of a new court house. This being the case, it is the duty of the commissioners ,o take the proper steps to see that the wishes of a majority of the people be respected. We believe they will do this, as they are all in sympathy with the progress and prosperity of Hancock county.

REDUCED KATES.

'.'.''Excursions over Pennsyluania Lines Ouriug Season ot 1895. Liberal concessions in fare over the

Pennsylvania lines have been granted for numerous events to take'-place this summer in various parts of the United States. In addition to local excursions tiakets at reduced rates will be.sold'over these lines as given in the following"paragraphs. Excursion tickets may be ob"fcained at ticket offices on the Pennsylvania System and will also be sold over this route by connecting railroads. Some of the points to which tickets will be sold and dates of sale as follows:

To Boston August I9lh to 25th inclusive account Triennial Conclave Knight9 Templar. Return limit extended to October 3d by special arrangement.

To Louisville, Ky., in September, for National Encampment, G. A. R. One cent per mile. Reasonable return limit.

The reduced rates over the Pennsylvania lines will not be restricted to members of the organizations mentioned, but may be taken advantage of by the public generally. Any Pennsylvania Line Ticket or Passenger Agent will furnish desired information concerning rates, time of trains and other details to applicants, or the same may be obtained by addressing W. H. Scott, ticket agent, Greenfield, Ind., or F. Van Dusen, Chief Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt Pittsburg, Pa. may21dwtf

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ELMER J. BINFORD

LAWYER.

Special attention given to collections, settllii, estates, guardian business, conveyancing, atr Notary always in office.

Office—Wilson block, opposite court-honse.

DR. J. M. LOCHHEAD, BOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN and SIMMON.

Office at 23K W. Main street, over Early's drug store.

Residence, 12 Walnut street. Prompt attention to calls in city o* ^country.

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TOWN DWELLERS,ARE APATHETIC.

Prone to Think That ftVhat Suited Their Fathers Is Good Enough. The revival of public spirit in our country towns is a matter which it is profitable to consider, remarks the Boston Transcript. If it is not so pressing as municipal reform, it directly affects more people. It is not altogether the same kind of problem. It is rare that there is any malfeasance in a town office. If political rings sometimes exist in town politics, they are more easily broken than in cities, partly because they are not held together by the cohesive power of plunder and partly because the free forum of the town meeting affords an opportunity to expose them.

There are often, however, an apathy and a stagnation among dwellers in towns which offer an insuperable obstacle to progress. That the fathers did certain things in a certain way is accounted reason enough for always doing them in that way. Things which the fathers got on without is reasoned their children can have no use for. Measures of improvement accordingly are resisted with an obstinacy which is deaf to argument. The immediate dollar outweighs the prospective advantage. In most towns there is much that might be done in the beautifying of streets and the planting of trees and in similar ways, at almost no expense, but by a simple concert of action. Frequently, however, it is im•possible to persuade those concerned that beauty and utility are sisters and that the things which are urged on aesthetic grounds have a value also in dollars and cents.

There is one practical reform in town administrat-on which can easily be made. This is the general adoption of the Australian system in the choice of town officers. By the old method of laboriously voting .for one set of officers after another a great deal of time is wasted which might be more profitably spent in the consideration of questions of town pol'cy. The newer system concentrates all this work upon a single ballot, and not only accomplishes the object in less time, but encourages a much fuller vote.

THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER.

Its Importance In tlie Cultivation of Public Spirit and Kducation. In a recent issue of the Boston Herald an editorial appears on public spirit in country towns. Speaking of the value of the local newspaper, it says:

The country newspaper is an important agency in the cultivation of public spirit, and however humble it may seem beside the metropolitan daily it has a place in popular education which is too little regarded. While the editor is often not above the rank of a practical printer there are many persons in most of the suburban towns—clergymen, lawyers, teachers and others—who have the leisure jind the ability to use the paper as the vehicle of influence over their fellow citizens.

The country newspaper is usually local in its news, and the very people who might make it fresh and suggestive are those who complain most loudly of its nieager character. Short articles pertaining to local interests are always welcome in its columns, and the men and women who most desire to make home life in the country rich and influential can best do so by contributing freely to its columns of what they have in mind. In some places this has been done, and the result in the quickened life of the community has been gratifying.

Dead Mining Town Resurrected. The new impulse lately given to gold mining lias brought new life to many deserted towns and abandoned camps in the west. One of the most notable of these resurrections—revival does not accurately describe the situation—is in the case of the camp of Florence, Ida. In 18(51 this camp had a population of 30,000 people, with banks, saloons, hotels and everything that goes to the making of a city. It was a placer camp, and gold was plentiful as gravel while it lasted. But it didn't last long, and in those bonanza days miners would not stay to work quartz. So the population deserted Florence as quickly as it came, and for many years the town was absolutely deserted and as much a ruin as ancient Carthage. Recently several good quartz ledges have been discovered at the old camp, and Florence is building up again.—Exchange.

Advertise at Home.

The editor can always write more cheerfully of the business interests of a town when his columns are liberally filled with the advertisements of the business houses. No editor can advocate the doctrine of buying from home merchants nnless the home merchants show they are interested in catering to the home trade by advertising in the columns of the local newspaper. It is depressing to the editor to find business men patronizing every advertising fake that comes along, and at the same time the names of those business men are rarely if ever seen in the advertising columns of the local newspaper.—St. Augustine (Fla.) News.

Children as Town Improvers. The Village Improvement society of Summit, N. J., has enlisted the school children in the work of beautifying the village. The following pledge was recently circulated among them: "We, the undersigned, agree to work together to make Summit a happier place in which to live by trying to remove everything which would make it less healthful and less beautiful, and by adding to it anything we can to make it more healthful and beautiful."

Safe on the Offer.

"Did you ever hear of Nocash's most generous offer to the town of Littletdn?" "No what was it?'' "He offers to give the town $500,000 for a free library if the citizens will raise a similar amount." "But Nocash is not worth $500,000. "Neither ire the citizens of LittleIon..!!— Bo8tM Herald.

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For sale at the lowest living prices. Call and see my stock. I will payhighest prices for all kinds of second hand goods

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Proprietor Second Hand Store.

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Ohio Woman at the White House. WASHINGTON, July 13.—Mrs. iiliza Davis or Gray of Toledo went to the White House yesterday to see the president. She sought information about the whereabouts of a former husband, who, it is claimed, was abducted by her son, and who she had supposed to be dead until alter her marriage with another man. She was examined by sanitary officers and sent back to Ohio.

Augusta Laundry JJurns.

AUGUSTA, Ga., July 13.—Fire caused a loss of ¥28.000 to the building of the Augusta steam laundry, on Eighth street. The loss is fully covered by insurance.

Notice to Contractors.

Sealed proposals will he received at the otlice oft lie Secretary of the Schools, City of Greenfield, Ind,on

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 18S5, AT 10 A. M., Opened immediately after and contract awarded as soon as conditions .suit, the Board, for the lurni3hing of all material and performing all labor for the erection and completion of a High School Building, according to plans and specifications prepared by WING & MAHUR1N, Architects of Fort Wayne, Ind. Plans may be seen on file either at-the Secre ary's office at Greenfield or at the office of the Architects after July 17th. Or if desirable, contractors may secure a complete set of plans and specificatioes for their individual use by sending twenty dollars the Architects aud on their returning same lo said office will receive a rebate of ten dollars. All bids must be made out according to plans and specifications and on blanks furnished by the Architects. Each bid must be accompanied by a certified eheck of five hund.ed dollars as a guarantee that if awarded the contract, the contractor will enter into a contract and furnish a satisfac ory Bond of the full amount of the contract. A sep a rate bid for cut stone must be made by the general contractor, also a separate bid for cut stone will be received governed by the same conditions as the general contract.

The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bid-, also to alter the plans, to increase or decrease the amount of the contract before awarding the same. fE P. TIIAYER, Jr., I'rcs.

Board of Trustees- D. B. COOl'Eit, Treas. (_E. E. STONEIt, Sec'y.

Notice of Annexation. 5

To whom it may concern: Notice is hereby given that at the regular meeting of the Board ofOoniinission»rs of the County of Hancock, State of Indiana, to be held at the City of Greenfield, County and State aforesaid, be ginning oil the 2nd ay of September, lsii.j, the City of Greenfield, of said State, will present a petition by its duly authorized attorney, pursuant to a resolution adopted on the othdayof June, bv its Common Council, authorizing the presentation of the ame, for the annexation to and the incorporation within the liniiis of said city, the following territory situate within the County of Hancock, and State of Indiana, viz: ommencing at a point oil the north line of the southeast quarter of section r, in township I.~ north, of range 7 east, a distance of five hundred and fifty-three and 12-100

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north-east corner thereof, running thence south •ne thousand one hundred and twenty two (1,122) feet: tlience west on a line parallel with the north line of said quarter a distance of one thousand forty-one and 5-10 ^1041 5) feet thence north on a line parallel with the west line of said quarter a distance of six hundred ninety-fonr and 32 100 (691 32) eet thence fast on a line parallel with the north line of said quarter a distance of six liundrel nineteen and 8-100 (Ol'.i 8) feet to the center of th.j Greenfield and Brandy wine gravel road thence northwestwardly with the center of said toad two hundred tiftv aud 14-100 (250 14) feet thence west two hundred seventy-one and 75-100 (271.75) feet on a line paralle' with the north line of said quarter thence north one hundred ninety-one arid 4-10 (191.4) feet to said north line thence east on said north line to the placc of begin nine:.

Also beginning at a poini on the north line of the southeast quartej of section 5, township 15 north, of range 7 east, a distance of one thousand five hundred forty-seven and 64-100 (1547.04) feet west of the northeast corner thereof, running tlience west on said north line seven hundred forty-five and 3 100 (745 3) feet to the west line ot Mechanic street, in snii City of Greenfield thence south with the extended west line of sai Mechanic street one hundred and seventy (170) feet thence east on a line parallel with the north line of said section a distance of seven hundred thirty-seven and53-100 (737.53) feet thence north on aline parallel with the west lino of said ction one hundred and seventy (170) feet to the place of beginning.

By order of the Common Council of the City of Greenfield. GEORGE W. DUNCAN,

Mayor of the City of Greenfield.

WILLIAM M'KOWN. '"lerk of the City of Greenfield.

To Martlia Riley, James W. EITH Eitel anil May Cox:

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Notice to Non-Residents.

Riley, John lliley,

You are hereby notified, that, npon the 80th day of March, 1N!)5, the City Commissioiiers of the City of Greenfield,

State of Indiana filed with the

Clferk of said City a report in the matter of opening Pennsylvania and Depot streets within said city, which report was accepted by the Common Council of snid City, and the land therein described as necessary to he appropriated was so appropriated on the22nd day of April, 1895, and a certified copy bf so'much thereof as contained an assessment of beuefits and damages was placed in my hands by the City Clerk, wherein it appears that there was aspessed to the lot of land within said City known ab the Riley property Seminary Square damages in the amount of six hundred dollars ($000 00), one third of whicli. or two'hundred dollars ($200,00), I understand belongs to you

Nottce is therefore Riven you that the said city stands ready and willing to pay said sum of two hundred dollars (8200 00) to whomsoever Is entitled to it. WILLIAM G. .SMITH, d95t2wks, Treasurer of the Hty ofGH-entield.

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•c% dNCE HAPPY CHTNAUT

A Chinese Scholar In Paris Takep1 a Gloomy View of Modern Civilization. "You wish to know," said he, "the opinion of our philosophers and sages in regard to the effect of the war just ended upon the condition of the Chinese. Well, I will give it to you. I put aside all the humiliations of defeat and place myself upon more solid ground. The war has robbed us forever of our tranquillity and our happiness. We were happy and led simple lives but, by bringing to us what you may call the 'benefits of civilization,' the Japanese will destroy our traditions and our hereditary virtues, confuse our customs and mode of living and make us like themselves, amibtious, restless and eager for conquests. And what will we gain by that? "You fancy that the Chinese are ignorant, poor and wretched, but you must remember that happiness exists in the idea that one forms of it. In other words, a man is happy when he believes himself happy, when he confines his desires to the few joys which are within his reach. The peasant who eats his rice at the close of his day's work is satisfied with his fate, provided he keeps his eyes away from the riches of others and closes his heart against covetousness. The evil sentiments of envy, jealousy and social hatred have never yet penetrated our population. I assure you that you wrong the poor Chinese. They are gentle, mild, good humored, honest, scrupulous, loyal, sympathetic and charitable. "You may have read the account of certain cruelties and barbarities, but they belong to the laws of war, which are equally barbarous in all countries. In a condition of peace, when their quietude is not disturbed, the Chinese are of marvelous benignity, which is only equaled by the gentleness of their wives. I fancy that I know the Parisian ladies, but I do not hesitate to say that the Chinese women are superior to them. In the first place, our ladies have little feet. "They are good natured and devoid of all coquetry. They have a deep sentiment of modesty, and their existence passes along without disputes and without quarrels. The woman who makes scenes is unknown in our favored climate. Our -women are contented with tlie dresses their lords and masters give them, and they never run up bills with dressmakers or modistes. "Moreover, luxuries in China are not costly. A furnished house with all the modern improvements can be rented for 60 francs a year. For a few cents a day you can have the most sumptuous dinners. "The victory of the mikado means the disappearance of our golden age. He has thrown down our walls. Now, the walls of China were symbolical. They sheltered the country against the winds from without. I mean those winds that bring with them pests and civil war." —Republique Francaise.

The Cruel Child and the Man. What a warfare the whole life of nature is! If Mother Nature be of a truth kind, as we are taught to call her, surely she is far from justified of all her children—of her human children least of all perhaps. Did not Plato say that "of all wild beasts a boy was the most savage?" And is it not true? I have a friend who tells me that at his school the boys used to catch black beetles and make them run races the length of the dormitory. If a beetle showed a remarkable turn of speed (it was beautifully simple), they would handicap him by pulling off a leg. It makes one sick to think of it.

And this was a natural instinct. Nature does not regard it—the individual is nothing to her, whatever he be to nature's God. A mother rebuked her child —a girl, too the instinct is not confined to a sex—for killing flies on the window. "Do you know who made those flies?" "Ess,"said the lisping little innocent "God made them, but he can make plenty more." That is the way that nature seems to look at it. There was meaning in it when the author of "The Coming Race" made chil-. dren the executioners and wielders of the fatal "vril" force in his fancied state. It is nothing to them. They are nature's children and inherit from their mother. We will not think the worse of them, if we can help, though of course we must blame them. We will be content to think worse of the grownup children who have come to years of reason and yet follow instincts of cruelty which they should have outgrown, say the man who "browns" a covey or fires at a pheasant at 60 yards.—Longman's Magazine.

How He Gave Up Cigarettes. "Did I ever tell you how I managed to euro mysalf of the cigarette habit?" asked a cholly the other day. I told him he had never explained the mystery to me, aud that I had spent many sleepless nights in consequence. "Now you are joking," he said, with his neat little lisp, "but really, on the extremely deceased, I have stopped it entirely, and it was the easiest thing in the world. I used to smoke from four to five packages a day and sometimes more. One day I made up my mind that I would quit. I do not mean that I would quit smoking, but I meant that I would stop buying them. I smoked those of my friends. Finally it became a bore to niy friends to have me always asking for cigarettes, and they sometimes said they didn't have them. Thus my charity smokes gradually became quite seldom. Finally there1 was not a young fellow who knew me who would give me a cigarette. By that time I hiid about got rid of the habit. One day I felt'like I would enjoy one, and I bought a package before I thought, lit one, and it actually tasted so badly that I threw it and the package away. Since then I have never smoked. I do no^ vjse tobacco in any form. You may giye this recipe to your friends if you desire. It cured me and did the job quickly and effectively. "—Louisville Commercial.

Among all the structures thatjmake up the human body, the nerves have been until recently the least understood.

The role of the nerves in the digestion and assimilation of food is a highly important one. The question whether the food shall nourish or become a mere load npon the system is a question of nerve force.

Neglect to satisfy the demands made by the nervous system carries heavy penalties. When this nervous force is exhausted the disgestive processes are obstructed, the body weakened and pains of neuralgia, indigestion, rheumatism, invade its parts. During repose the nerves aud great nerve centers feed upon the nutritive material that is stored in the blood and tissues. It is when this supply of nourishment is prompt and abundant that the nerveus system is able to recuperate, but when the system has become too tired to appropriate sufficient nourishment and the nerves too shaky to get the the rest they need, that best of all blood purifiers, nerve foods, and nerve regulators, Paine's celery compound, should be given at once.

Paine's celery compound has brought health, strength, and freedom from nervous weakness to thousands of tired women, "run down men, and sickly children. It makes them able to sleep soundly, to digest their food perfectly, and to win back health and strength. The tired brain and nerves are rebuilt and their wasted parts repaired during sleep, and where neruousness, irritability, and inadequate nutrition of the nerve

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We invite all the citizens of Hancock and adjoing counties to call,, in and inspect our new store.

New Fixtures, New Drugs, New Sundries, New Stock'of all Kinds.

The store will be in charge of E. Ii. Jackson, a graduate of the Purdue University School of,Pharmacy. ,V

ceuters do not permit cilTi-.lent sleep, nervous prostration, las-itm!e and desponency are sure t® folio.v. Paine's celery compound guards against all this by promptly feeding tlie exhausted nerves and making the blood pure, abundant, and nourishing. It cures nauraglia, rheumatism, all forms of nervous weaknees, despondency, skin diseaae, and affections of the heart, liver and kidneys. It sends pure, vitalized blood to every organ,and thus makes people well. Paine's celery compound has found its way riginally through prescreptions by physicians, into every city and smallest village in the country.

It would be very difficult to find a man or women of mature age who has nob either been helped by this remarkable remedy or has heard of its marvelous prop erties at firsthand from some enthsiastic friends or relative. Paine's celery compound is the only great popular remedy that physicans of every school prescribe for disorders of the bio3(1 aud nerves.

Say Mrs. Kate Manuel. 216K 3rd ave., Minneapolis, whose picture is above: "I have been greatly benefited by Paine's celery compound. I have taken six bottles of the wonderful remedy, and recommend it to all who are atHcted as I was. For years I have suffered from indigestion, aud kuow not ho.v to give due thanks for the relief that I have received while taking Paiue's celery campound. My son-in-law has takpn two bottles for similar trouble and it has made him wil'.

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